{"id":4745,"date":"2012-08-24T08:43:28","date_gmt":"2012-08-24T14:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/channel57.org\/?p=4745"},"modified":"2012-08-25T07:33:23","modified_gmt":"2012-08-25T13:33:23","slug":"great-performances-32","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/?p=4745","title":{"rendered":"GREAT PERFORMANCES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/channel57.org\/images\/twilight.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4746\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/channel57.org\/images\/twilight-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/images\/twilight-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/images\/twilight.jpeg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>TWILIGHT: LOS ANGELES<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>SATURDAY, AUGUST 25 @ 7:00PM<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>When Anna Deavere Smith\u2019s drama <em>Twilight: Los Angeles<\/em> premiered in Los Angeles at the Mark Taper Forum, it made national news for its unique and unflinching look at the fallout from the 1992 Los Angeles riots.\u00a0 Not only did Smith capture the tumultuous aftermath of the Rodney King trial verdict, she created a searing, innovative and truly American piece of theater.<\/p>\n<p>On April 22, 2012, David L. Ulin, <em>Los Angeles Times<\/em>book critic, assessing the literature of those riots, wrote, \u201cthe most comprehensive literary response to the riots remains Anna Deavere Smith\u2019s \u201cTwilight: Los Angeles, 1992,\u201d a theater piece, written and performed by an outsider who channels the cacophony of voices at the city\u2019s heart.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/gperf\/episodes\/twilight-los-angeles\/about-the-production\/1329\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><br \/>\nFind out more \u00bb<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TWILIGHT: LOS ANGELES SATURDAY, AUGUST 25 @ 7:00PM When Anna Deavere Smith\u2019s drama Twilight: Los Angeles premiered in Los Angeles at the Mark Taper Forum, it made national news for its unique and unflinching look at the fallout from the 1992 Los Angeles riots.\u00a0 Not only did Smith capture the tumultuous aftermath of the Rodney &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/?p=4745\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">GREAT PERFORMANCES<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-program-highlights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4745"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4748,"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4745\/revisions\/4748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}